Well, thank you all. Those answers are certainly comprehensive... and sound. I sense it may be correct that I am looking for something amiss, something that simply cannot be found - for God's own reasons.
I realize this may sound stupidly obvious to some, but believe it or not, it has just occurred to me (with your help). I DO believe in Jesus, as the Son of God, the redeemer, whom God raised from the dead, and the only Name given under heaven by which we must be saved. And I also have been baptised in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit. This is all the Holy Scriptures say is required to be saved. So perhaps the reason that I feel no need of Christ when in God's presence is simply because I have successfully attained the goal... I just expected Jesus to be there, to meet Him, and have in fact been demanding that He be there. This may simply be a wrong assumption on my part, and something which God is, for his own reasons, unwilling to grant. Be assured however, that I'm not investing anything in this answer just yet, although at the moment it has the "ring" of truth.
Please let me contemplate these things for awhile, and take it all to prayer.
